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The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing. To which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art

Publication date: 1760

Topics: Botanical illustration, Flowers in art, Drawing books, Coloring books, Botanical illustration, Coloring books, Drawing books, Flowers in art

Publisher: [London] : Sold by I. Smith, at Hogarth's Head, Cheapside, London

Collection: wellcomelibrary; ukmhl; medicalheritagelibrary; europeanlibraries

Contributor: Wellcome Library

Language: English

Rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark

Item Size: 231.8M

2 unnumbered pages, 61-76 pages, 60 leaves of plates : 22 cm (4to)

Engraved title page signed C. Phillips

Plates are from Robert Sayer's edition as described in Dunthorne, 272

Imprint not described in Henrey, B. Brit. botanical lit.; nor in Dunthorne

Notes

Title on cover page.
No copyright information.
Page numbering alternates due to image plates.
Some text printed askew.
Text cropped off the outer edges of some pages.